Boreopeltis

Boreopeltis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Family:	†Plesioteuthididae
Genus:	†Boreopeltis Engeser & Reitner, 1985
Species
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Boreopeltis is an extinct genus of plesioteuthidid cephalopod, with 4 known species.[1][2]

Species

• Boreopeltis helgolandiae (Engeser & Reitner, 1985)[2] from the Aptian.

• Boreopeltis sagittata (Naef, 1921)[2] from the Tithonian.
• Boreopeltis smithi (A. Fuchs & Larson, 2011)[1] from the late Cenomanian to ?Santonian of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon.[3]
• Boreopeltis ifrimae (Fuchs, 2021)[4] from the Turonian of Vallecillo, Mexico, has a gladius length of 47 centimeters and is the second-largest known plesioteuthidid after Eromangateuthis soniae.[4]

Formerly assigned species

• Eromangateuthis soniae Fuchs 2019 (previously Boreopeltis soniae Wade, 1993[2])

References

1. "WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Boreopeltis smithi". www.bagniliggia.it. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
2. "Plesioteuthididae". tolweb.org. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
3. Fuchs; Larson, Dirk; Neal L (March 2011). "Diversity, Morphology, and Phylogeny of Coleoid Cephalopods from the Upper Cretaceous Plattenkalks of Lebanon–Part I: Prototeuthidina". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (2): 234–249. doi:10.1666/10-089.1. S2CID 196614833.
4. Fuchs; Stinnesbeck, Dirk; Wolfgang (November 2021). "Large-sized gladius-bearing octobrachians (coleoid cephalopods) in the Turonian plattenkalk of Vallecillo, Mexico". Cretaceous Research. 127: 104949. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104949.